New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-03
DR. HTTCHCOCK As APUBLIC SPEAKER.

HIS HANrY FACULTY OF PUTTING SIMPLE lhoino
IN STRIKING TERMS.
President Roswell ID. Hitchcock OF tue onio" INC
illogical Seminary, who was buried last week.
in remarkable degree the rare git OF oeing
able TO make interesting remarks whenever calIeo
mon No matter whether the occasion was the intro
ducton of distinguished visitor from abroad to
large audience, simply familiar talk wiz one OF
his casses he always said something that could DC
carried away an remembered. Often he would begin
or close lecture in church history that necessarily
consisted naiply of dates theological opinions
witn d few personal words from his own experience
aud observation give forecast in regard to the
subject under discussion. In introducing Archdescon
Farrar one of the large CbckerinG Hall at diencos
he illu straed has well-known habit OF condepsing
column into para graph. He said
| am glad to he your representative tonight in
introducing Arohdeacon Farrar to this meropolis-this
commercial metropolis of the United states. In him
we welcome 40 alien. There is an OLD England that
stretches from Northumberland to Cornwall there
is youp( England that belts the world-that leads
the world in enterprise, in civilization IN Christianity
Dr. Farrar was born in the Asatic division OF this
England he has been reared in the European but
he is no. an alien in American England ln the second
place. he is no Stranger here. The learning and
eoauence thu scholar and preacher have preceded
him across the ocean. His books are found IN our
households, and we greet him not as stranger, Out
rather old acquaintance
In announcing that the seminary would be closed
on the day OF Mr.. Beecher's funeral, Dr. Hitchcock
said:
The BIO ia father of the man that tells the Wh0le
story 10 man knew his own limitations better than
r Beechtr but thus not the tune to speak OF these
He was poet without rhythm philosopher with
out method % theologian without system. Mr.
eecher NAV wei, be called the apostle OF the Lumani-
ties IN has The phianthropic and reiormatory
spirit BEEN more prominent 10 this ne was bright
and shu.ug 1ignt The h,gh-water mark OF Mr.
Beecber', eloquence reached when he laced
those tic, supercious En- glish audiences at the
time of toe Civil War, beat them down and threshea
them will the awful dali OF his mighty eloquence
In 1896 the Westmin ,ter Presbyterian Church OF
Brooklyn was organized, aud DR.. Hitchcock was Its
irst min stsr ard did much to get the enterprise
fairly stated. Thirty years later he preached the
anniversary sermon in which he said
In the last thirty years there have been more
ch9nges in Jhodght than since the beginning OF the
word. There has been rapid movement in science
toward atnelsp OF which We are now Gesion,Dg 10
tell your children fables, expecting them to be more
religious, pu liant dragons teeth. Never build ON
wood, but choose granite foundation. WIN I'd
irreligion Is acknowledgements and the day after
comes the delrge Mach which we possess Tor belief
in God is mercy scholafic assent God must rule IN
u.s. be near us. Right is what He tells us to do aud
wrong is what He has told Us not to do Belief IN God
is not mere conviction but absolute trust. submission
and service Sin makes us afraid OF God, but II Q
had not snneJ might be in the power OF the evil
spirit. We may be afraid OF judge AMI jury, but We
ale more afraid Of the mob III the street Where 10
Tiberius Nherp Nero, that imperial monster
Where are the many other monsters OF history
Where the NAPOLEON who thought nothing oil the
slaughter Of q hi lion OF men Not their power. but
Have they now Gods is the hand that never tires.
Hi. memoir reyer iorgets But who could picture
the horrors OF the universe la control o evil Thank
God thanh & d that Tie Is just
DR. Hilchcvck's idee OF what seminary should
teach aad the principle when he worked upon NAV
BIS seen by the following extract from an address
given year ago
One OF the mos, potent objections OF The Roman
Catholics to the Protestant reg ior has bcen that we
have paid too much Difference 10 wealth. The time
has we'd Tor US to give the demoo attic 81 more
min lhl NJ
tue products oil LABOR In doing this We need not be
clerical de nag ogues ANY one with hat an eye can
see that 'he coming ministry must be ess' ntally
pastoral The minister whose education ceased
absolutei' twenty-five years ago might IS we'll have
died TWEEN y-iye years ago in that period We have
sed the Civil War the reunion of
the Presbyer,n Church. In our work in the seminary
it has been end.avor to make good, sound, every
day, pra, teal. working ministers.
At the funeral OF William f. Dodge, IN 1888, DR..
Hitchcock said III referring to Heaven:
That oihor sorid It, farther boundary is beyond
the stars. Bat who can tell Us where IL brglns
Who tell us how far We shall have 10 go before
we find ourselves developed by the radiant host
The eyes of lshas servant needed only 10 be opened
and behold, tho mountains were tull OF horses and
chariots OF ire round about Elisha Two worlds
there may be- but the universe IL And God IL in
1t. And Christ is in it, Fr,m earth to Heaven. from
the services is one one Lord one faith. one baptism
In referring to the life of Mr. Dodge he said
Ons more word. | see in his unseldsh life a sngges-
ton IN sociology which allenges our most earnest
thought With a high and ever-ad ancing civiliza-
ton. equality OF outward condition becomes more and
more Impossible. But marked in equality OF outward
condition is the angry coma aud atest peril OF
time. Our civilization is mpotent TO save itself.
Only thing can save IL. That one thing is wise,
patient, unselish stewardship such as we con-
nenorate today. God he thanked for another clean
earned fortune put TO its highest use tor another
eventtul and gracious lite well-rounded out. Well
dou-, good aud faithful servant, thou hast already
entered into the ov OF thy Lord At the graves edge
we say to thee "Good-night" through the veil we
shout to thee {" Good morning"